Benjamin Kirk wrote:

>> Yes, the valence of existing nodes does not change. And yes, I agree,
>> one should do the reordering right at the beginning (well, after the
>> very first refinement, see above). The problem is, when I refine a
>> triangle which has vertex 0 with, e.g., valence 5. When I refine it, the
>> subtriangle connected to this vertex needs its internal _nodes to be
>> rearranged such that _nodes[0] points again to the valence 5 vertex.
> 
> Now that we can guarantee for triangles.
> 
> We use the "embedding matrix" concept to define child node locations in
> terms of the parent nodes, and looking at
> http://libmesh.sourceforge.net/doxygen/face__tri3_8C-source.php
> http://libmesh.sourceforge.net/doxygen/face__quad4_8C-source.php
> 
> Shows you are good for tri3 and quad4.

Okay, very nice. Thanks!

>>> Since you are ultimately interested in patches (?), I wonder if instead you
>>> might want to use the MeshTools::build_node_to_elem_map() members:
>>>
>>> http://libmesh.sourceforge.net/doxygen/namespaceMeshTools.php
>>>
>>> It will give you the element connectivity for a given node.  You could then
>>> tear down this list and check the size() of the ith entry.  If it is not 6,
>>> you've got a problem node.
>> Wow, I was not aware of this functionality. I'll have a look at it.
> 
> Sadly, that's probably the 4th time in a couple weeks that comment has been
> made with regard to a feature...  I guess the doxygen documentation is not
> very conducive to light reading, and our examples are simple enough as to
> not scare people off...

While I use the doxygen docs a lot, they cannot easily provide a new
user like me with the big picture. In particular, when parts of the code
are not tightly linked to other parts, such as the MeshTools. Maybe
overhauling the index page at
http://libmesh.sourceforge.net/doxygen/index.php would help. For
example, mesh operations are listed there, but there's no link to the
MeshTools page. But I'm sorry for being already the 4th to make this
comment... ;-)

-Norbert

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